Special Feature: Racing Gallery Tour

An early Christmas present for you all! 🎁

With colder weather on the horizon, Sammy could not resist the opportunity to fire up his famous NSU Sportmax, as well as his favourite bike to ride – our 4 cylinder Gilera.

Recreating his stunt from his 90th birthday celebrations, Miller rides straight through the Museum entrance to begin a whistle-stop tour of our very own racing gallery! 🏁

Join Sammy for a personal tour through the incredible history of some of our most notable machines and their riders!

Even the most avid racing aficionados will definitely learn something new from this video!

We hope you enjoy and wish you all a very merry Christmas and all the best for the new year 🎄⭐️

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Oh another day at the Museum I thought we would do a feature on the racing Gallery so we’ve just ran two of my favorites uh NSU sport Mar which your truly Miller won the Northwest three times in the Trot lster all the Irish races third at Monza all

That sort of stuff and of course my favorite Alo never actually raced one in Grand Prix but it was always my favorite bike the four-cylinder gilera great Jeff juk great Bob McIntyre sort at the world I so uh to we’re very very fortunate to have the gelera and the NSU the racing Hall

Here as you see uh quite a collection that have gathered up over the years we briefly run through a few of them of course this is the porcupine first bike to wion a world championship 1949 with the grit Les Grim on board that’s the V8 M goodsy uh

1957 very very fast bike I was second at the Belgium gr Prix in 1957 this was timed along the maroon straet it’s something like 173 mil hour so of course that’s for the full fairing which give you an awful lot of Advantage another ajs um this one’s close to my

Heart ster Grand Prix 1939 great Walter Rusk who was a friend of my brother Brothers actually because they all lived up in the B San Road Belfast Walter was the first man to lap at over 100 m hour on a British circuit so there you go V4 50 years before the

Japanese V4 supercharged liquid cooled what more do you want we’ve got some excels here we’ve got 250 350 and the mechanical Marvel this was a really really Advanced thing four valve radio TN Biden carburetors exhaust way ahead of its time and uh won the TT in 1933

Grand Prix Triumph won the 46 Mike Grand Prix with Ernie Lions this one’s Bill Ivy’s uh V4 yawa 1969 we know it it’s his bike because Bill only liked a single cam rear break all the other ones are double cam the back break so that’s build bu’s bike hos uh great Stanley

Woods great man had the honor to meet him uh when hosana won the TT 1935 v twin hosana and um they had a disaster after the TT they’re driving back to Sweden full team and uh the TT Trophy and the van goes on fire somewhere and burns

Everything to the ground so they arrive back at the factory with nothing left disaster the re reg gon vertical twin um twin cob did he he made this himself really although he did work at Rolls-Royce the great John C he’s a friend of mine he at the early stages I

Think something like 30 35 victories in the 250 class in the UK couple of bsas here this is the MC1 The Works Grand Prix bike Jeff juk was to race this at Silverstone they practiced on it at Alton very successful so everything was ready for the word go so the pause to be

At BSA called the race team into the director’s office and the director said uh we need a guaranteed win before we let it go to Silverstone and the team said well it’s a race we’ve a great chance of winning but we can’t guarantee

A win so one of the great pars to be who shall be nameless said if you can’t guarantee a win you’re not going so they didn’t go so the bike never raced in its life after spent absolute Fortune racing building it leading link Forks C lever back in special engine special fuel tank

Fantastic anyway that’s the British industry that’s what probably seen it off this one here first aluminium frame in the world eron earol great man when I worked at Aerials his Factory was only up the road a bit and he made my aerial petrol tanks because as you see he made

Aluminium do whatever he wanted he was a fantastic uh metal man if you look at the welding and all that leading link Forks that’s gas welded 1951 unbelievable unbelievable that’s the great Les Grim on the MV4 so we move on here then a little rc1 125 uh

Honda uh the great Joey Dunlop and Robert Dunlop they campaign these and one te t northwester Grand PR um that’s a great photograph of the great Bob McIntyre and oler gr PRI Ronda herpin I remember that well on the nsue so that’s great Bob wonderful guy very quiet and um

When we red at mono he didn’t like the rasat tals like Miller so we used to go for a walk at night from the hotel uh discuss what was going to happen on race day Etc great great great memories uh we get on the a AMC stuff matchless and ajs that’s the

G45 they made a wonderful sign but they never lasted very long there were never very reliable motor the more reliable one was the G50 that’s 1963 the single which was really a board out 350 7R so uh the matchless G50 wonderful but Miller started his racing career in one of these here uh

That’s 49 7R tell you a story I don’t want to tell you but anyway so Miller one of his first two races if you see how that’s sticking out there well in the mid out 150 Miller flat out down the straet and he’s trying to tuck in get in

Elbows in knees in legs in and I remember something going flick at the back and it was that filler cap opening so unfortunately the previous lap Miller decided this left-hander that he was taken in third he could take flat out and top well he couldn’t take it flat

Out and top with the whole back end of the bike soaked in oil so Miller demolished the six foot hedge flew down the road um that carted off on a barn door as a stretcher uh not too nothing broken just black and blue all over the place

So there you go then we go to the bacos uh with Senor bolto when I was Associated uh TSS bacos um Northwest 200 years truly bit of a comeback uh in the Northwest in 66 when I join Baco finished fourth and one LP practice and then the things seized so I really went

Out in the race after not racing for about 10 years with one lap practice but managed to get up the fourth and on the following W following weekend it was the Linder 200 so Tommy Rob beat me there and I was second and then the cooks time hund the following Wednesday I managed

To win the cooks time hund done so uh back in the fold that’s an interesting thing there that’s um an a nearly 7h hour megaphone at the size of that with you you know what a racket I don’t know where they got the dimensions and the specification for

That but uh that’s um early 7R a then we go to Jew erck emc’s great je erck wonderful Austrian man and um did a lot for racing this is his 350 that’s his 250 and that’s is 125 uh that’s years true Miller Racing it an Ireland The Cook the temple hund

What happened on the Irish races there was no practice in those days he just started the race cook 100 in a skill and all those so they used to run two races the 200 cc race and then The Big Race So Miller used to uh borrow something like

This to race in the 200 class so he knew where to turn in the main race so there you go that’s young Tommy Robert there and um MZ this is a story and a half this this is the fastest two-stroke in its time 59 the Walter codon the great Walter

Codon and he worked with Von Brown on V2 Rockets Believe It or Not Rockets So he worked with Brun and they came across the two-stroke combustion calculations and formula so when he transer that to the two stroke it transformed two strokes and this thing was a mile mile hundreds

Of miles miles quicker than anything else and then of course you know the later story when dagner did a runner and took all the plants to Suzuki and then Yamaha copied them and all that Japanese copied from the V2 rocket unbelievable unbelievable little mundal 125 x Morris

Can rold used to make ring frames can spray and um he’s been here he’s seen it and uh showed me that the drawings of the frame number one first first Reynold racing frame ever made so there you go there’s a nice photograph of um Jim redond Jim good mate of mine great

Rider on that’s on the 250 Honda uh so we moved on this end the woods that’s summer Miller’s recent history that’s the length of 200 right first time ever in history this bike here right that one there Bob Bryan and I were having a rate ding-dong all race

For the 200 miles it was serious serious but it turned out that Bob Bron and I were faster than the 500s and Miller was faster than Bob bran so I won the race on a the outright race on a 250 beating the 500s but I must admit it was a bit hairy

At times off stone walls and uh serious I think that’s a photograph there of the NSU um North probably in the Northwest 200 uh so here we go again I’m another Villa this is Miller’s one uh 250 World Championship B 1930 1957 third in the world champion on it should have went a

Bit quicker Jacko Austin’s had a ride in this actually Jacko a great guy great man uh 16v 750 they made it for the EML and the Tona 200 mile race didn’t do any good because it originally had shaft drive which um flued a bit so they converted them later to chain drive that

One there is quite unique RS 125 V4 Stuart Graham wrote it in the Japanese gr Prix I think he finished second Stuart loves that bike and uh ACC he rides his father’s porcupine at Goodwood etc for us but that was a forerunner of the big Suzukis the mark

The mark fours and the mark FS that was a 125 V4 managed to get that off Barry Sheen when Barry shange collection great great guy great man when he was going off he was immigrating to Australia for some reason oh it was Health reason he like

The camp climate out there so I had uh that of them and some other bikes and including this Bo box of spark plugs that he gave me so there you go that’s from Barry box of his rent plugs you know in the mid-50s if you didn’t have one of these

In the 125 class you were you were wasting your time totally these things were way ahead of everything else although that cost more than a MX Norton but if you didn’t buy one of these I a Max Norton cost about 500 quid you think was 398 quid plus v uh or Purchase Tax

In those days and this was getting towards 500 quid I love writing this at Goodwood there’s a photograph of yours truly on it Goodwood uh handy bik to write gret Walter Zeller used have great times with Walter Zeller um how he managed to master that beat me because

Jeff duuke tried to write it um C try to write it none of them could write them and um Walter almost won the World Championship and John C’s beat him at two points or something over the all the season but I remember we were doing uh the classic

Race at franos Belgium and I was on the Zera and he was on this I was always one for very Jeff Duke’s nice small movement into corners and stuff so I’m following Walter and he gets this thing and he flings it into the corner and he picks

It up and he throws it into the next Corner real vicious and he’s got the handle bars locked like that and there’s no way that thing’s going to take the take a head shake with with Walter on board but um great great time with Walter and uh I get on a course pre-war

1939 the the great George Meyer he won the TT um on a supercharge one of these and uh had the honor of waiting George Meyer at the TT great guy he and Stanley Woods had a bit of a banter together I loved it it was wonderful experience to see the term

Having banter talking about Stanley Woods Stanley Woods won the a TT on this about 1936 um 120 degree V Twin fantastic by Bob Foster again he he wrote it in the TT Ernie L wrote it and man of barington wrote them too but this was M gs’s biggest mistake right so the

They had this developed the winning Italian European Championship on and then they decided to go to the single for some reason but I did mention 120 degree twin so a few years later jaati came on the scene with 120 Dee twin sports bike took the world over so millions of them so uh

Really motor gutsy had the the oyster in their hand and they let it go so there you go so G’s biggest mistake a little selection of um aramakis that’s a 125 250 and 350 full set I roll that at Goodwood a few times I quite enjoyed it

Racing that at Goodwood it was really fantastic in the 350 class didn’t do too bad on either you know blew them off so there you go that’s a big try or BSA triple very similar to the Triumph triple um so that’s a bob North frame which is a bit special dreaded

CZ there’s Miller and the T on it 1958 I think it must mean the slowest the slowest 250 on the class Miller finish fourth or something on it you can literally run harder you know but there you go not much competition to mvs and uh mundal then we’ve got the the mark

For uh Suzuki rg500 the h1r they used to say when if you race one of those you need to spend the winter catching flies so you could catch the clutch before you seized up and flung you down the road so you had to spend the winter catching flies so you

Were quick on the clutch and then this one here is um 5 NS and again three cylinders seem to be a very good formula for racing two cylinders two two go up and down like that and one go the front so three cylinder one pokes out the front two

Goes up like that there two stroke so that came from an Irish collection olster collection uh the GP Jim Lily great friend great man he had a racing collection and um he fell into poor health with a dreaded cancer and um so he came to an agreement to sell his bikes to the

Museum and I should think he’s a happy man looking down seeing all his bikes on display we’ve got them all working all running uh there’s only two bikes here that don’t work one’s the um 250 Honda and that three-cylinder D both have got crank problems and uh to have new cranks

PA for them it cost a fortune so those are those are the only two that don’t work here if you asked me to start that up Jim and I could take that out there fuel it up oil it up battery on and hey Gusto you’d be off in the TT there’s

Miller in the TT there he is fastest fastest man I don’t know where that is about the Bungalow or somewhere but uh lovely bike to ride um full fairing this these fairings were banned in 57 because they were so dangerous and windy conditions like you nearly get blown off

The circuit somewhere like the Belgium gr Prix with wide open spaces side wind uh so the fim banned them in 57 so 58 they went to this type of faing here where you had to have the front wheel exposed so you didn’t get the side pressure on the Wind so there you go

Wonderful there’s another one down here we haven’t looked at which is not in the racing Gallery right here we go um Bru Superior pendy 1925 um big thousand CC JP motor um raced by the fero and Jo W all those famous Racers and believe it or not that’s Eric fern

Helmet that he used in 1930 unbelievable if you look at this 1930 RoR the excelia Streamline rear wheel streamline forks and if you look at this here it’s really unbelievable so I’m not telling you a duer 163 miles an hour 90 years ago 163 miles an hour running on alcohol

Um special racing fuels and so forth in those days they really went to turn on the fuels um big pegs on the end of the foot rest so your foot rest don’t fly of them but um Brave man 163 M hour exposed chains funny enough it’s only got a

Two-speed gearbox in it really it’s a tury old engine supposed you used about bottom gear to get get up to about 80 M hour on the run up to the speed trap and then you would stamp it into the top when you get up to about 140 or something and um keep going

And 163 mil hour and then of course you had to do two runs in case there was any wind um assistance there there’s uh your right full steam ahead 163 M hour see the helmet see the back wheel fantastic anyway I think we’ve done most of the racers um hope you’ve enjoyed it

I enjoyed riding the gilera even better I enjoyed the NSU happy memories Northwest 200 oler Grand Prix all those races great memories great memories and um Come Again Come and have a look at us